Early Music
Early Music
Early Music
Bach Under The Stars: Air on the G String BWV 1068
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Music in the Early Years $63.65 Music in the Early Years is for teachers working across the 3 to 8 age phase who want to make music integral to the life of the nursery and early years classroom.Music has often been taught as if it were different, something outside the mainstream curriculum, with teaching approaches quite at odds with early years work. This book takes childrens development as its basis and works towards building a music pedagogy within early years practice. A readiness to listen, observe and reflect is central to the practice which threads through the book.Based on the authors extensive experience and drawing on that of other teachers and researchers, lots of welltried, practical ideas show how teachers, parents and carers can help children fulfil their music potential. Sample activities model ways of working with children and have been written in such a way that they can be substituted with other material and adapted for further use. Earlier and later stages of learning and progression are described as a basis for matching activities with childrens learning needs, as well as a companion book, Primary Music: Later Years. Author: Young, Susan/ Glover, Joanna/ Glover Joanna Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 Publication Date: 1998/04/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.40 inches |
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Discover Early Music $9.33 The Middle Ages began with the collapse of the Roman world. This left a military and political system in ruins but a cultural world-view largely intact. Artistically rich and varied in themselves, the medieval centuries also sparked both the artistic Renaissance and the religious Reformation that followed. Rich but musically lost? Buildings and statues endure, but how can we ever really know about early music and what the Medieval and Renaissance world sounded like? From the evidence that remains, modern performers have embarked on the great adventure of rediscovering, recreating and reinventing some of the earliest surviving music of Europe with prolific and fascinating results. Discover just some of them through this book and accompanying website. |
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Music In The Early Twentieth Century $25.29 The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present. Each book in this superlative five-volume set illuminates-through a representative sampling of masterworks-the themes styles and currents that give shape and direction to a significant period in the history of Western music. Now in paperback each of the volumes is being sold separate for the first time. Music in the Early Twentieth Century the fourth volume in Richard Taruskin's history looks at the first half of the twentieth century from the beginnings of Modernism in the last decade of the nineteenth century right up to the end of World War II. Taruskin discusses modernism in Germany and France as reflected in the work of Mahler Strauss Satie and Debussy the modern ballets of Stravinsky the use of twelve-tone technique in the years following World War I the music of Charles Ives the influence of peasant songs on Bela Bartok Stravinsky's neo-classical phase and the real beginnings of 20th-century music the vision of America as seen in the works of such composers as W.C. Handy George Gershwin and Virgil Thomson and the impact of totalitarianism on the works of a range of musicians from Toscanini to Shostakovich |
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The Interpretation of Early Music $49.28 Organized for the greatest clarity, the study consists of four main "books," respectively entitled Style, The Notes, The Expression, and The Instruments. Each book is divided into its relevant parts, thus allowing the reader immediate access to the specific subject under consideration. There are also nine invaluable appendices plus an in-depth annotated bibliography. This edition is actually the third revision of The Interpretation of Early Music; it was greatly expanded in 1974, and again for the present volume, in which Professor Donington took into account the very latest research, the explosion of interest in accurate historical performance practice, and recently formulated theories. |
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The Effects of Music in the Early Childhood Classroom $111.53 Music in Early Childhood Anyone who has been in an early childhood classroom knows that music is an important part of childrens lives. Music is not only a part of our culture; it has a biological effect on our minds. While researchers are still studying the specific effects of music on cognitive learning and brain activity, studies have shown that music does have a positive impact. Teachers of young children have an awesome responsibility as they unearth the potential of their students. Many teachers feel inept in teaching music because they believe that they do not sing well enough or do not have enough musical knowledge. This leads them to rely on taped music and to use music as a tool for transitions rather than a cognitive area taught for its own value. Teachers can impart musical concepts to children in developmentally appropriate ways. This book will give early childhood teachers the means to accomplish this goal. This guide will assist teachers as they develop and present developmentally appropriate activities that teach musical concepts. Author: Woolum, Kayren Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 54 Publication Date: 2009/07/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.13 inches |
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Early Music: A Very Short Introduction $12.23 The music of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods have been repeatedly discarded and rediscovered ever since they were new. An interest in music of the past has been characteristic of a part of the musical world since the early 19th century-from about the time of the rise of museums. The revival of Gregorian chant in the early 19th century; the "Cecilian movement" in later 19th-century Germany seeking to immortalize Palestrina's music as a sound-ideal; Mendelssohn's revival of Bach: these are some of the efforts made in the past to restore still earlier music. In recent years this interest has taken on particular meaning, representing two specific trends: first, a rediscovery of little-known underappreciated repertories, and second, an effort to recover lost performing styles, with the conviction that such music will come to life anew with the right performance. Much has been gained in the 20th century from the study and revival of instruments, playing techniques, and repertories. What began as a "movement" akin to the arts-and-crafts movement took on political overtones in the 1960s, fueled by a sense of return to the natural, a rebellion against received wisdom and enforced conformity, and a notion that early music was a participant's music as much as it was a listener's. The enormous success of a few performers and groups has tended to professionalize early music, and the amateur, participatory aspect has gradually faded. In this VSI, Thomas Forrest Kelly frames chapters on the forms, techniques, and repertories practices of the medieval, Renaissance, and baroque periods with discussion of why old music has been and should be revived, and a short history of early music revivals. |
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Music Companion for Early Childhood $32.27 A collection of songs created and compiled for an adult to use to teach children. Suggestions for activities and presentations are included for each song. Simple music and illustrations are also included. Author: Isle, Judith Belle Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 140 Publication Date: 2007/05/01 Language: English Dimensions: 11.00 x 8.25 x 0.30 inches |
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Oxford Early Music Series $98.99 Known principally as the father of Wolfgang Amadeus, Leopold Mozart was a distinguished musician in his own right. An excellent violinist and composer, his greatest contribution to music was his Treatise on Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing. Published at Ausburg in 1756 it was the major work of its time on the violin and it contains much that is of considerable interest and value to musicians today: notes on performance, practice, a glossary of technical terms and specific chapters on the playing of written and improvised embellishments, the trill, and special rhythmic figures. Copious exercises illustrate each point made in the text. A Preface--revised for this edition--offers an illuminating biographical study of Leopold both as a man and as a musician. |
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Early Music : A Very Short Introduction $7.99 From Gregorian chant to Bach's Brandenburg Concerti the music of the Medieval Renaissance and Baroque periods is both beautiful and intriguing expanding our horizons as it nourishes our souls. In this Very Short Introduction Thomas Forrest Kelly provides not only a compact overview of the music itself but also a lively look at the many attempts over the last two centuries to revive it. Kelly shows that the early-music revival has long been grounded in the idea of spontaneity of excitement and of recapturing experiences otherwise lost to us--either the rediscovery of little-known repertories or the recovery of lost performing styles with the conviction that with the right performance the music will come to life anew. Blending musical and social history he shows how the Early Music movement in the 1960s took on political overtones fueled by a rebellion against received wisdom and enforced conformity. Kelly also discusses ongoing debates about authenticity the desirability of period instruments and the relationship of mainstream opera companies and symphony orchestras to music that they often ignore or play in modern fashion. |
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Inside Early Music: Conversations with Performers $35.14 The attempt to play music with the styles and instruments of its era--commonly referred to as the early music movement--has become immensely popular in recent years. For instance, Billboard's "Top Classical Albums" of 1993 and 1994 featured Anonymous 4, who sing medieval music, and the best-selling Beethoven recording of 1995 was a period-instruments symphony cycle led by John Eliot Gardiner, who is Deutsche Grammophon's top-selling living conductor. But the movement has generated as much controversy as it has best-selling records, not only about the merits of its results, but also about the validity of its approach. To what degree can we recreate long-lost performing styles? How important are historical period instruments for the performance of a piece? Why should musicians bother with historical information? Are they sacrificing art to scholarship? Now, in Inside Early Music, Bernard D. Sherman has invited many of the leading practitioners to speak out about their passion for early music--why they are attracted to this movement and how it shapes their work. Readers listen in on conversations with conductors Gardiner, William Christie, and Roger Norrington, Peter Phillips of the Tallis Scholars, vocalists Susan Hellauer of Anonymous 4, forte pianist Robert Levin, cellist Anner Bylsma, and many other leading artists. The book is divided into musical eras--Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classic and Romantic--with each interview focusing on particular composers or styles, touching on heated topics such as the debate over what is "authentic," the value of playing on period instruments, and how to interpret the composer's intentions. Whether debating how to perform Monteverdi's madrigals or comparing Andrew Lawrence-King's Renaissance harp playing to jazz, the performers convey not only a devotion to the spirit of period performance, but the joy of discovery as they struggle to bring the music most truthfully to life. Spurred on by Sherman's probing questions and immense knowledge of the subject, these conversations movingly document the aspirations, growing pains, and emerging maturity of the most exciting movement in contemporary classical performance, allowing each artist's personality and love for his or her craft to shine through. From medieval plainchant to Brahms' orchestral works, Inside Early Music takes readers-whether enthusiasts or detractors-behind the scenes to provide a masterful portrait of early music's controversies, challenges, and rewards. |
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Early Music for the Harp $16.33 This book contains a variety of songs and dances, originally written in the 12th through 16th centuries, arranged for the harp. The majority of the pieces are drawn from the medieval period and often existed in their original form as melody line only. All of the pieces in this book are playable on the folk harp. |
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Tonal Structures in Early Music $68.36 Discussion of tonal structure has been one of the most problematic and controversial aspects of modern study of Medieval and Renaissance polyphony. These new essays written specifically for this volume consider the issue from historical, analytical, theoretical, perceptual and cultural perspectives. |
Early Music